Marry the man of my dreams.Give birth to two, gorgeous, healthy children.Go on a wonderful adventure with my family… where we sell up, pack up and work on the road as we travel for as long as we can afford to!Host a “Songs & Stories” evening- Record my songs and distribute them freely for anyone who likes my style and/or musical stories.
Publish a book – even if it means self-publishing… doesn’t matter… just finish the book and publish it!- Finish the script I’ve been working on… !!
Swim with dolphins.- Go husky dog sledding somewhere snowy and remote.
Sleep in a cabin (also somewhere snowy & remote). Cabin needs to have log fire, hot chocolate and snuggly husband. - Swim in those hot, steaming lakes surrounded by ice (is it Greenland?).
- Ride the Siberian Express.
Go tobogganing somewhere beautiful and snowy.Watch a shuttle launch.Go snorkelling in Hawaii.- Learn how to snow ski!
Go parasailing.Jump off a very high bridge.- Attend a concert (anywhere!) where Bobby McFerrin is performing live with a symphonic orchestra.
- Speaking of symphonic orchestras – I want to attend a concert… with full orchestra… huge choir… and great seats – and I want to listen to something like ‘O Fortuna’ – or ‘Handel’s Messiah’ – or something equally wondrous… (I will cry like a baby – guaranteed!)
Enjoy a White Christmas with my husband and children… (don’t care where).Watch a London West End show.Watch a Broadway show.Go to Disney World.Take my kids to Disney World.- Have somebody else pay for me to travel first class (on a long-haul flight!).
- Own a grand piano (but only when my nesting season returns).
Make a film with Nick.- See the Northern Lights.
Live on another continent.- Go to a really fancy masked ball… preferably somewhere exotic – like Venice!
- Do a treetop canopy tour – in some exotic jungle somewhere.
Go scuba diving.Swim with a Whale Shark.Dive a wreck.- Travel down the Amazon River… in a houseboat.
See Africa’s Big Five (Lion, Rhino, Elephant, Buffalo & Leopard) in their natural habitat.- Learn how to hip-hop dance.
- Visit Paris… and sit at a cafe… and eat pastries and drink coffee… and visit the Louvre… and go up the Eiffel Tower.
Visit Victoria Falls.- Visit Niagara Falls.
- Take my kids snowmobiling… somewhere flat (like Ohio)…. (*hint, hint to Ohio friends*)
- Go on a cruise – preferably around the Caribbean.
- Visit one or more of the Greek islands.
- Abseil off a cliff.
- Sing a jazz standard accompanied by a Big Band.
- Experience the Rio Carnival.
- Attend the TED conference – as a speaker!
- (Eventually… and only when I’m ready to re-nest)… own a home somewhere beautiful – where every morning, I open my curtains and see something beautiful… whether it’s the sea… forests… mountains… a river… I don’t mind, as long as it’s beautiful.
- Watch and listen to hundreds of pipers piping at the Edinburgh Tattoo.
Be happy.
My Bucket List (the first 50)…
